[CTS] Re: Back to School ?
- From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhb57@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:13:38 -0500
I know the name Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom all too well - the building we
worked out of at Chanute, while the base was still active, was named in
memoriam in his honor - Grissom Hall. Now that has been removed and it's
simply the Octave Chanute AeroMuseum.
I knew people that saw cars coming into common use and replacing horses that
were amazed that the Buck Rogers and Jules Verne science fiction was
becoming more reality than fiction - my parents still had horses for certain
uses in inner city chicago up until about 1947 when laws and ways of doing
things changed. The CPD still runs mounted police along the lake front
downtown, out of middle 19th century stables that used to belong to the
Chicago Fire Dept when they were horse drawn wagons with hand powered pumps.
Things change - I'm now very close friends with a guy in cinncinati that was
a KGB operative that I would have been courtsmartialed for communicating
with as little as 15 or so yrs ago...back in the mid 80's he would have been
trying to work info from people in my job (nuke air launched missiles) and I
of course would have to report all contact with people like him. It still
has me a little on edge especially to have him in the US as a citizen just
like me.
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> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 11:00 PM
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> Subject: [CTS] Re: Back to School ?
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>
> Time is scary stuff and as fleeting as it's reputed to be.
> I use to go hunting and fishing with gramp who remembered Lincoln and
> then when the Apolla burned at Kennedy in 1967 one of the astronauts
> that died in that fire was the Operation Officr of the squadron when I
> was a student pilot. Every student in the outfit feared catching Grissom
> for a check ride because he was so strict....... all business,
> all the time.
> From the Civil War to the moon, now the space station, and super
> computers...........
> AND THEY STILL CAN'T CURE A COMMON COLD !
>
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>
> Russ Blakeman wrote:
>
> >My dad was born 11/32, he was also about 8 when Pearl was bombed. My
> >grandfather on my mom's side, before he lost it to alzeihmer's,
> could tell
> >me all kinds of odd stuff about the turn of the century (19th to
> 20th) as he
> >was born 1894 and was almmost drafted for WWI but managed to
> volunteer and
> >get a cushy job in Chicago at Navy Pier when it was still an active Naval
> >post.
> >
> >A guy I worked with at Plattsburgh NY would tell me about the
> base we went
> >to for tech training - Chanute (was field, then AFB, now closed
> and public)
> >in IL. Seems he was one of those people that had a parent that was older
> >when he was concieved (his dad remarried after being widowed -
> MUCH younger
> >wife) and seems his dad was at Chanute Field back when they did flying
> >training and it seems Mr Charles Lindbergh was going through air
> mail pilot
> >training in a biplane at Chanute at the same time. He was by no
> means famous
> >then but everybody knew each other and once Lindberg had the notariaty as
> >well as the misfortune with their son, he would write just to
> keep in touch.
> >The guy I worked with had a photo of his dad and Lindberg and a
> coupel other
> >GI's back at Chanute - pretty cool.
> >
> >The older man that showed us the property my parents bought out
> here back in
> >72, who was 88 then and still hiking the woods better than us 15 yr olds,
> >would tell us about the area in years past and his father was a Civil War
> >soldier, CSA, at age 15.
> >
> >Weird how the world has changed - people can't even sit in their
> back yards
> >on a summer day without passing out yet as little time as back in 66 I
> >remember when air conditioners were just starting to become a
> normal thing
> >in Chicago in my neighborhood of working class folks. Color TV was just
> >affordable about 62 or 63 yet most stations still broadcasted in
> BW. People
> >in my grandparents era married and had businesses or farms or
> worked 60 to
> >80 hrs a week, had kids, etc starting at age 14, now you can't
> get your kid
> >to leave at 24...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>[mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Cuffy
> >>Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:13 PM
> >>To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>Subject: [CTS] Re: Back to School ?
> >>
> >>
> >>Almost !
> >>I was in the service when my great grandfather died at the age of 95. It
> >>didn't seem terribly important at the time but my great grandfather was
> >>6 years old when Lincoln signed The Emancipation Proclamation. All I
> >>ever talked to him about was hunting and fishing. when I should have
> >>been absorbing some first hand knowledge about the trying times during
> >>the Civil War. When he died they were training me to fight in another
> >>war, the Korean War, and I was 8 years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed.
> >>Three wars later I thought I had things pretty well cleaned up.
> >>Then Russ shows up and starts the vicious cycle all over again !
> >>Thirteen, 48 or 50 stars and we seem to be still fighting the same
> >>battle. Keep it flying o'er the land of the free !
> >>
> >>And I can point out Nebraska now !
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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